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DATE: March 31, 2006
LOCATION: Slab City, near Niland, Imperial Valley, CA
DESCRIPTION: Leonard Knight, creator of Salvation Mountain, gave me a tour of his fantastical construction. He showed me this national award and clippings from magazines and newspapers from Australia, Japan, and all over Europe and the US, Europe that testify to his international recognition as a folk artist. He keeps these in thick, bulging notebooks piled in one of his “closets” – an old station wagon.